Something we can all agree on: Dragon Head

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

The year-end roundups continue, and manga is getting some love on the general-comics lists. At PLAYBACK:stl, Jason Green includes Sugar Sugar Rune and Adam Warren’s Empowered in his top ten. Dick Hyacinth has a cascading series of lists that includes Tezuka’s Phoenix: Sun (top ten), Tekkonkinkreet, New Engineering, and Dragon Head (next ten), and Reptilia (books that deserve more attention—paging David Welsh!). Sean Collins includes Dragon Head as the odd manga out in his top 15 comics.

On the other hand, it’s not too surprising that Dave Ferraro, who reads a lot of manga, would include so many in his top 20: Emma, MW, Dragon Head, Yotsuba&!, Nana, Apollo’s Song, Andromeda Stories, and Gyo. That’s a lot of range right there.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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